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WD’s Tunesday — Name That Tune and Win Awesome Writing Stuff

Enjoy a little rock & roll music from time to time? Who doesn’t? Well I’m trying something fun and different today as a Monday pick-me-up to try and get your week going. It’s my own crazy variation of NAME THAT TUNE and I’m calling it WD’S TUNESDAY (possibly Volume 1, if people dig it). The rules and the gist are simple. Watch the video. I play 15 riffs on my guitar. You try to name as many of them as you can, and e-mail me your answers to literaryagent at fwmedia dot com (Contest Deadline: EOD, Oct 19, 2012). The person who names the most correct answers gets lots of cool prizes (see below). It’s a great excuse to call upon friends and relatives to help you ID the songs, as they are from different decades. It’s also a great excuse to blow off whatever dull work you’re doing and listen to music instead. And if you can’t name all 15 songs, feel free to enter anyway! If no one can name all 15, the closest number wins. You think you got what it takes? Need a little rock & roll music to liven up your day? Then listen in as I try to do these riffs justice on my guitar…

Simply click on the video to play. The rules and prizes are below. Good luck! Feel free to share news of the contest with this TinyURL link: http://tinyurl.com/8qaj6fy

THE PRIZES

A one-year subscription to WritersMarket.com (value: $50)

A free critique by me of any one of the following: 1) your query letter, 2) your synopsis, 3) your first 2 double-spaced manuscript pages.

A short, lighthearted “Winner Interview” with you posted on this blog and the WritersDigest.com homepage to get to know you and your writing projects real quick. (Receives 100,000+ page views a month. The interview, naturally, is optional.)

Praise from yours truly as the first awesome winner of the Tunesday challenge.

HOW TO ENTER (IMPORTANT — READ THIS!)

To enter, email your 15 answers to literaryagent@fwmedia.com. DO NOT LEAVE OFFICIAL ENTRIES BELOW — THEY DO NOT COUNT. E-mail is the official way to enter because if you write some of the answers below, you cannot win and people will only steal your answers. I cannot shut off comments for this post, but if you leave a comment that has answers, I will delete it as quickly as I can. That said, feel free to ask questions or talk about anything else in the comments.

RULES (AND STRATEGY)

E-MAIL me your answers to compete. That is the only way to officially enter to get the awesome prizes below.

E-mail your answers to literaryagent@fwmedia.com with the word “Tunes” in the subject line.

You need to correctly identify the song title in full or at least very close. You do NOT need to correct ID the artist, but feel free to.

If multiple people are able to guess all 15 riffs, then the first one to do so correctly is the grand-prize winner. So time does factor in. That said, it will be interesting to see if someone guesses all 15 right and how quickly. It is unclear whether speed will be of the essence or if someone will wait a while until they figure out all 15.

You are only allowed one entry per person, so make sure you get your guesses right before submitting.

If no one guesses all 15 correctly (quite possible), then the person who guesses the most, the soonest, will win.

The song choices vary a lot, and I tried to make this somewhat difficult. I highly encourage you to call upon relatives of different ages to help you decipher these tasty licks.

Contest is over at EOD, Oct. 19, 2012. I will then review all submitted emails and announce winners 1) on this post, 2) in a new post, and 3) by a personal notification via email.

Contest is open to all persons worldwide not working for F+W Media, or directly related to someone who works at F+W media. Questions? Leave them in the comments below. Good luck!

Reminder: Do not leave official answer submissions or song names in the comments. Email them to me at literaryagent@fwmedia.com. Entries here in the comments are not eligible and will be deleted if they have answers in them.